Tuesday, October 30, 2018 at 12:59AM Do tell in the comments. You've been quiet today. I just got back from a screening which... well, there's an embargo damnit. But it was surprisingly satisfying good fun.
Monday, October 29, 2018 at 3:00PM Jason Adams from MNPP here, wishing everyone a Happy All Hallows Week as well as (thematically related) a Happy 25 to Henry Selick's now-a-holiday-classic The Nightmare Before Christmas for this week's "Beauty vs Beast" contest. It seems strange to remember that when NBC came out it only got mixed reviews but I was there, I am old, and I remember it - it's stood the test of time though, and now I can't imagine Halloween or Christmas without Zero the Dog and the rest of the colorfully spooky gang. (The annual argument over whether the film is a Halloween Movie or an Xmas Movie that I could do without.)
PREVIOUSLY The winner of last week's PJ Soles contest was... drum-roll please... PJ Soles! PJ Soles is always our winner. Okay okay specifically it was her Halloween character of Lynda who won over her role in Carrie, with a vote of 69% (that number would totally make Lynda giggle). Said Rob:
"Norma was horrible and got what she deserved. Lynda was a totally lovable airhead. GO LYNDA"
Monday, October 29, 2018 at 1:00PM Sniffle. There are only two more days of October left but we're working through our grief at saying goodbye to our favorite month each year by doing it a bit early... oh and Happy Halloween y'all! Here are some highlights from October that you might have missed.
Dozen Favorites
• Diane Warren Sings! Her new song "I'll Fight" and a tribute concert
• Green Book it's a bonafide crowd pleaser
• Posterized: Tilda Swinton Her biggest roles and essential roles
• Months of Meryl on the rewatchable delights of It's Complicated (2009)
• Carey Mulligan in Wildlife Murtada is wowed
• Amazing Carey Mulligan impression from comic actress Desi Domo
• Exciting 30 Year Old Actors because Nathaniel fancies himself a casting director
• Brian Dennehy LOVES Saoirse Ronan thinks she's one of the all time greats
• Foreign Film Oscar List the trailers to the 87 contenders
• Private Life Chris on the new Tamara Jenkins on Netflix
• The Favourite Olivia, Rachel and Emma's triple-dynamism in one of the year's best films
Most Discussed by You!
• Best Horror Film Performances from Carrie to Hereditary
• Gotham Nominations The Favourite and First Reformed lead the pack
• Yes No Maybe So: Vice Christian Bale does his Cheney mimicry
• A Star is Born is a Drama at the Globes so where does that leave Best Comedy/Musical?
• A Star is Born Nathaniel's review
Coming in November
Parker Posey's 50th birthday, Addams Family Value's 25th anniversary, Honorary Oscar Recipients actress Cicely Tyson, producers Frank Marshall & Kathleen Kennedy, and composer Lalo Schifrin, If Beale Street Could Talk, Widows, The Front Runner, Foreign Film contenders including Israel's The Cakemaker, Japan's Shoplifters, Argentina's El Angel, and new on DVD/BluRay: Blindspotting, BlacKkKlansman, and Crazy Rich Asians....
Monday, October 29, 2018 at 10:30AM by Dancin' Dan
It's a tall enough order to write a play about one of the greatest actresses the world has ever known. It's quite another to write a play about that same actress taking on one of the most famous plays ever written. But Theresa Rebeck has never been one to back away from a challenge. Her delightful new play Bernhardt/Hamlet imagines what it must have been like for the great Sarah Bernhardt to assay the role of none other than Hamlet, all the way back in 1897. To say the least, it was difficult.
Bernhardt (Janet McTeer), in her fifties, was past the point where she could believably play the dying ingénues that made her famous (and also far past the point where she wanted to). Out of money but full of ambition, she decides that Shakespeare's melancholy Dane will be her vehicle for a comeback after her last play, written by Edmond Rostand (Jason Butler Harner), flopped with audiences despite love from critics. But she is having difficulty "finding" the Prince, frustrated by his ease with flowery verse and his inability to take action.
Can a powerful woman play a powerful man? Bernhardt is absolutely sure of it. She says...
Monday, October 29, 2018 at 7:00AM 5 random things that happened on this day (October 29th) in showbiz history...
Fanny Brice
1891 Fanny Brice born in New York City. The comic actress, radio star, and Ziegfeld Girl who was immortalized by the Oscar-winning biopic Funny Girl. Brice is name-checked a few times in the new wonderful film Can You Ever Forgive Me?
1918 Happy 100th birthday today to Baby Peggy (aka Diana Serra Carey), the silent film child star who is still alive today! (See our list: 200 Oldest Living Screen Stars of Note). According to a THR report from January she's doing well and recently published her first fiction novel (!!!) having previously written a memoir and a biography
1943 Flesh and Fantasy, an anthology movie of occult-related stories opens in movie theaters starring Barbara Stanwyck among other stars. Y
ou have to click on this poster after the jump which asks "WHICH IS YOU?" So, dear reader, tell us... which is you?
